Bva Lingo Is Making Me Laugh

[carlie]

Man, I think they are just trying to make things more difficult.

Today I had to check another word in the dictionary.

I'm starting to wonder just who the hell it is they are trying to impress

or maybe just piss vets off more.

I've probably read my fair share of BVA decisions and have never seen

one decision with this word in it before.

http://www4.va.gov/vetapp10/files1/1000546.txt

There is not a scintilla of evidence that any VA error in

notifying or assisting the Veteran reasonably affects the

fairness of this adjudication.

[Hoppy]

The folks at the BVA might have gone to the same university I attended. I was taught every time I wrote a paper to send the instructor grading the paper to the dictionary. It did not matter if it was introduction to basket weaving or post graduate epistemology ..

I tried to put the big grin at the end. It put in the text.

Edited June 14, 2010 by Hoppy

[LarryJ]

Man, I think they are just trying to make things more difficult.

Today I had to check another word in the dictionary.

I'm starting to wonder just who the hell it is they are trying to impress

or maybe just piss vets off more.

I've probably read my fair share of BVA decisions and have never seen

one decision with this word in it before.

http://www4.va.gov/vetapp10/files1/1000546.txt

There is not a scintilla of evidence that any VA error in

notifying or assisting the Veteran reasonably affects the

fairness of this adjudication.

One of "them" (as in: us vs. them), well, one of them larned a Knew wurd!

Back when I was a kid, and I was trying to "catch-up" in my class at school, learning English (it's not my original language so's I had some catching up to do), I'd read the dictionary. I was probably the ONLY 2nd or 3rd grader that carried around a Webster's Dictionary. But, by the time I was in the 5th and 6th grade, the English teacher was sending my across the street to the High School for my English classes (and the High School English teacher was sending me to the High School library where I could read Bacon and Shakespeare instead of wasting time in her 9th and 10th grade classes.

But, I digress.....................I'm proud of anyone, even a VA employee, who expands their knowledge base and uses big, scary, words.

[john999]

They could say "not one molecule or atom" of evidence.

[pacmanx1]

I am quite sure that we all can agree that BVA can use any word or words they choose as long as it says granted service connection, granted Earlier Effective Dates, granted claims increase, granted DIC or granted any other claim that is on appeal.

[Vync]

Carlie,

The VA employee who wrote that decision must have got a 'word a day' calendar for Christmas.

Edited June 14, 2010 by Vync

[Pete53]

At least it was used properly. I went to a College Prep High School that was harder than the College I attended.

For 3 years I was required to learn 25 new words each week, spell them and use them in a sentence.

My favorite word that I ever learned was dipsomaniac.

Dipsomania is a historical term describing a medical condition involving an uncontrollable craving for alcohol. It was used in the 19th century to describe a variety of alcohol-related problems, most of which are most commonly conceptualized today as alcoholism, but it is occasionally still used to describe a particular condition of periodic, compulsive bouts of alcohol intake. The idea of dipsomania is important for its historical role in promoting a disease theory of chronic drunkenness.